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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Four unidentified individuals on Stand Rock. |
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| Description: | Up from the foot of the cliff at the mouth Witches' Gulch. Two women are posing sitting on the right. There is a third person in the lower left-hand corner... |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat entering Devil's Elbow at Narrows. There is a building in the background with a sign on the roof, probably the Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | View of bow of "Apollo No. 1" steamboat with passengers posing near a dock on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi... |
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| Description: | A female Cole Brothers Circus performer is shown in costume, wearing a tall plumed hat, with a tent as a backdrop. |
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| Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of over twenty-six Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants, standing on their rear legs with front legs resting on the elephant ahead. ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Della Royal (Mrs. Rhoda Royal) sits in a 2-wheeled cart decorated with flowers and harnessed to her world famous horse, "Glendive," as taken from a 1906 ha... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
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| Description: | Rose Dockrill of Delavan, Wisconsin. A female circus performer described as "a swell artist and fine looker and dresser." |
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| Description: | A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them. |
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| Description: | Rex Roope of Kansas City got attention as he told his audience "all you have to do is ring the prize and it is yours. Step right up folks." |
| Date: | 07 26 1979 |
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| Description: | People waiting in line for the opportunity to buy tickets to a Green Bay Packers home game. |
| Date: | 07 20 1970 |
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| Description: | Packer fans, despite bad weather, wait in line Sunday outside The Milwaukee Journal Company building to wait for Monday's football ticket sale. First in li... |
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| Description: | Seven skiers in a pyramid. Four men are on waterskis on the bottom, and three women are standing on top of their shoulders. The women are wearing unusual c... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of pyramid of water skiers in Tommy Bartlett's show on Lake Delton. The woman on top of the pyramid holds a red flag. |
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| Description: | People gather around a bench in front of Casino Amusement Park. A roller coaster, pavilion, and ticket booth stand behind them. |
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